Coronavirus Bulletin—26/03/20
Original Research
Title: A comparative study on the clinical
features of COVID-19 pneumonia to other pneumonias
Description: Nineteen 2019-nCoV
pneumonia and fifteen other pneumonia patients were compared. Demographic,
epidemiological, clinical, and radiological features from those patients were
analysed.
Title: A cluster randomised trial of cloth
masks compared with medical masks in healthcare workers
Description: Hospital wards were
randomised to: medical masks, cloth masks or a control group (usual practice,
which included mask wearing). Participants used the mask on every
Title: Clinical features and obstetric and
neonatal outcomes of pregnant patients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China
Description: Clinical features,
treatments, and maternal and foetal outcomes were assessed in all pregnant
women with COVID-19 admitted to a Chinese hospital.
Guidelines
Title: Infection prevention and control during
health care when novel coronavirus (nCoV) infection is suspected
Description: This guidance is
intended for healthcare workers (HCWs), healthcare managers and IPC teams at
the facility level—and is also relevant at the national and district/provincial
level.
Available from: https://www.who.int/publications-detail/infection-prevention-and-control-during-health...
Description: There does not
appear to be a validated tool to assess breathlessness over the telephone or by
video. Clinical judgement, through careful history taking and questioning, may
currently be the best available method.
Expert Opinions
Title: The life and death decisions of covid-19
Description: If the NHS’s
intensive care capacity is breached, how do we decide which patients should get
priority? Daniel Sokol—medical ethicist and barrister—considers the various
ethical arguments
Available from: https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/03/20/daniel-sokol-the-life-and-death-decisions-of-covid-19/
Title: Patients with mental health disorders in
the COVID-19 epidemic
Description: The author
considers how ignorance of the differential impact of the epidemic on those
with mental health disorders will also augment already existing health
inequalities.
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